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Buhl, Idaho: A Provincial Productionnew

Boise Weekly spends a day filming with Oscar-nominated producer Heather Rae on the set of her new film Buhl, Idaho.

Boise Weekly | Jeremiah Wierenga | 12-03-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Buhl Idaho, Buhl, Idaho, Jaffe Zinn, Buhl, Heather Rae, Idaho

Made of Metallicanew

Robert Trujillo, who joined legendary heavy metal band Metallica in 2003, talks about the on the past, present and future of the famous band.

Boise Weekly | Amy Atkins | 12-03-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Robert Trujillo, Metallica, Death Magnetic

What's all the Dam Fuss? The Army Corps Plays with Willamette's Water Flowsnew

The Army Corps of Engineers teaming up with The Nature Conservancy to change the way the river flows as part of their “Sustainable Rivers Project." The alliance will experiment with the way the Corps manages flows of water from the dams to see if it might alter the future for the fish and the river’s ecosystem. With TNC’s reputation for bowing to big business and the Corps’ bedraggled renown for bad projects like the “monumental negligence” that led to the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, it’s hard not to look at that particular pairing without some skepticism. But can the unlikely pairing improve the river, or is the Sustainable Rivers Project a greenwash scheme to make dammed rivers look better?

Eugene Weekly | Camilla Mortensen | 12-03-2009 | Environment

Tags: The Nature Conservancy, salmon, dams, Army Corps of Engineers, rivers

A Begrudging Admiration of Las Vegasnew

It’s a strange economic model that has fascinated a number of contemporary American writers, from Hunter Thompson to Marc Cooper. Las Vegas is an obvious morality story all about capitalism, exploitation, human nature, and, of course sin and religion. The town was created by Jewish mafioso, then the Mormons took over for a while, and now others are moving in. Mormons may be the most conservative of all religion, certainly socially, yet Vegas is proud of the fact that your secrets are safe in Sin City. Not being a Mormon, I can’t imagine how they reconcile themselves to their adopted city.

Random Lengths News | Lionel Rolfe | 12-03-2009 | Commentary

Air Apparents Zero 7 Veer Away from Their Downtempo Rootsnew

Five years after being described by Rolling Stone as "Air without irony," Zero 7's Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker are still amazed by the persistence of comparisons to the French electronica duo.

Colorado Springs Independent | Bill Forman | 12-03-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Chill-Out, Eska, Henry Binns, Martha Tilston, Sam Hardaker, Simple Things, Yeah Ghost, Zero 7, Air

The Story of Web Sensation Annie Leonardnew

Leonard's The Story of Stuff, is an entertaining tale of global production and consumption patterns, and their connections to larger social and environmental issues.

Colorado Springs Independent | Kirsten Akens | 12-03-2009 | Shopping

Tags: Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff, Timothy C. Linnemann, consumption, production

UC Berkeley Study Links Heat and War in Sub-Saharan Africanew

A study by Cal doctoral student Marshall Burke and professor Edward Miguel, published in last week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to link global warming to human warfare.

East Bay Express | Madeleine Bair | 12-02-2009 | Environment

Tags: UC Berkley, WAR, global warming, Africa

The Case Against Chevronnew

An unprecedented campaign by at least a dozen nonprofit groups targets the oil company's global operations and reputation.

East Bay Express | Peter Asmus | 12-02-2009 | Environment

Tags: oil dependence, marketing, Chevron, oil companies

Converge Reaches for Diversitynew

Axe to Fall aims to recapture a bit of the profoundly alien sensibility and weird terror that consistently puts 2001's Jane Doe at the top of any metalhead/punker's desert-island disc list.

Tucson Weekly | Jarret Keene | 12-02-2009 | Reviews

Tags: Axe To Fall, Converge

Quiet, Melancholy Moods of Orenda Finknew

Now based in Los Angeles, the ex-Azure Ray singer/guitarist recorded her second solo full-length in her old basement in Omaha, Neb., and the modest 8-track approach doesn't hurt the sonic quality.

Tucson Weekly | Jarret Keene | 12-02-2009 | Reviews

Tags: Ask the Night, Orenda Fink